Nature Pictures from Trout Streams, Page 63

View from the Elliott Highway not far north of Fairbanks, on my way up to the Dalton.

Here my dad drops his largest resident rainbow ever, after a spectacular fight. It's a good 18 inches.

This is the first grizzly bear I've seen. It's in Denali National Park. People with long-range binoculars, plus the view through a couple spotting scopes the park installed at this stop, verified that the little light spot my arrow is pointing to is, in fact, a grizzly bear. This is the closest view I got.

I took this picture on my way home from Homer, from one of the Denali overlooks on the Parks Highway a ways north of Talkeetna. That is an amazing drive at all times of year, and spring is no exception. The highest, most distant mountain visible is Denali / Mount McKinley, while the rest of the Alaska Range rises over the Chulitna River in the foreground.

This is one of the first creeks crossed on the Dalton Highway itself, but I can't remember its name.